As a nonprofit and charitable organization, we partner with local African charities and NGOs to provide clean water, healthcare, food, education, orphan care, and more. Every project we support helps African children and families build a healthier, more self-sufficient future.
We’ve worked with partners to provide clean water across Africa for many years. Whether it’s for a school, clinic, or farm, these life-changing water projects improve health, reduce hardship, and offer hope for a better future. Thanks to our generous supporters, our work continues in 2025 and beyond.
We currently work with local organizations in these African countries: Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Our programs span across Africa through trusted partnerships with locally based charities and community organizations. Each partner leads projects that provide clean water, food, education, healthcare, and orphan care tailored to their communities’ needs. Together, we build healthier, more self-sufficient futures.
Out of the 190 countries around the globe, in 2024 the Republic of Chad ranked #13 based on “Purchasing Power Parity” (PPP) which compensates for differences in living costs and rates of inflation which better assess an individual’s buying power in any given...
Bread and Water for Africa® first began working with Bega kwa Bega (BkB - Shoulder to Shoulder in Kiswahili) in Uganda in 2020 to construct concrete barriers around fresh water spring sites, which are necessary to prevent animal and human contamination to protect...
For the past several years, thanks to the supporters of Bread and Water for Africa® we have been able to provide grant funding to our partner, the Shinga Development Trust in Mutare, Zimbabwe, to ensure that approximately 80 orphaned and destitute children are...
Since 1997, Bread and Water for Africa ® has spearheaded initiatives to enhance Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) standards in ten African nations. Bread and Water for Africa® multifaceted approach includes the construction of new wells, the rehabilitation...
In Malawi, malaria is endemic in more than 95 percent of the country and is responsible for approximately seven million cases annually and more than one-third of all outpatient visits across all ages. In one of the poorest countries in the world, where its...
In the hospitals and health clinics in Sierra Leone supported by Bread and Water for Africa® there is a significant need to replace mattresses that are deteriorating due to years of use. Clean, comfortable, and supportive mattresses are essential for patient...
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Bread and Water for Africa® is a BBB-accredited charity with a Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency. Our mission is simple, provide a brighter future for Africa's Children! Learn more at africanrelief.org
Laure Pitimbaye was seventeen when everything changed. Her mother died suddenly, and her father’s illness meant there was no income, no way to cover school fees. For nearly a year she stayed home in N’Djamen, Chad.
Hope International Foundation, with support from Bread and Water for Africa®, provided a scholarship for Laure that covered tuition, exams, a uniform and school supplies—the simple things standing between her and the classroom.
Today Laure is preparing to become a nurse. “By God’s grace, I am almost at the end of my training as a state-qualified nurse at the Health School at the Université le Bon Berger in N’Djamena.”
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Half the children in Chad never step inside a classroom.
Picture being ten, ready to learn, but the doors stay shut—not for lack of ability, but because there’s no money for school, no books to study, and no one to support you.
UNICEF tells us:
• 1 in 2 school-age children can’t go to school
• Only 20 % who finish primary school can read and do math confidently
• About 70% of children are illiterate
Behind every statistic is a name, a face, a future waiting.
🔗 Read more on our blog: africanrelief.org/unlocking-futures-education-as-the-key-to-change-in-chad/
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🌍 Today is International Day of Charity 🌍
On this day, we honor the legacy of Mother Teresa and reflect on the power of compassion and giving. At ®Bread and Water for Africa, we are committed to transforming lives across Africa by providing essential resources like clean water, education, healthcare, and orphan care.
Your support enables us to partner with local communities in countries such as Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, empowering them to build healthier, more self-sufficient futures.
Together, we are making a lasting impact.
Join us in celebrating the spirit of giving. Every act of kindness counts. Learn more about our programs and how you can get involved at africanrelief.org.
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Today, the protected spring in Bugongwe serves more than 1,000 people and 480 schoolchildren.
"Children are happy that they can get water very fast with no scuffle and return home in time," said community chairman Henry Kalulu.
What began as one spring for 120 households has grown into a lifeline for families across the region.
This is what safe water means:
Health.
Time.
Childhood restored.
But in Uganda, four out of five people still lack reliable access to safe water.
🌍 We have seen the difference a single spring can make. That’s why we must keep going.
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The spring at Bugongwe did not appear overnight.
Villagers carved a path through brush, carried stones and timber on their shoulders, and laid each piece by hand. Together, they built the foundation of a safe water source—brick by brick, step by step.
An education session followed: how to care for the spring, how to protect the water chain, how to ensure its future. A committee was elected, including children, to guard what was now theirs.
And when the work was done, joy erupted.
"They danced, they sang, they jumped with joy for having free access to a clean, safe, reliable water source," recalled David.
For the first time in living memory, Bugongwe had water they could trust.
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In Bugongwe Village, Uganda, water once came at a terrible cost.
Families walked hours each day to reach alternative sources—dirty, open pools where cows and children alike drank side by side. Mothers washed clothes in the same water they feared giving their children.
"The available community water sources are not safe, not clean and not enough for the villages," explained David Ssagala, director of Bega kwa Bega.
For 600 people, water was not life. It was danger. Each drop carried the threat of disease.
💧 A reminder: for one in three people in sub-Saharan Africa, this is still the daily reality.
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